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This Week in NET reviews Cloudflare’s latest Q3 DDoS attacks report with Manish Arora, Senior Manager of Engineering. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This report showed a number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million of those DDoS attacks, repre...

Host João Tomé is joined by Reagan Russell, Senior Manager of Project Management, who shares what it’s like to organize and plan an innovation week where Cloudflare announces numerous products and features. We discuss how teams across the company — from technical groups to marketing and communications — collaborate to put together a week where Cloudflare aims to give back to the Internet. We also...

In this week’s episode, we look at the behind-the-scenes of our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week. Host João Tomé is joined by Kari Linder, Principal Visual Communications Design Lead and she shares about the inspiration and creation process behind innovation weeks. Discover the creative process and artistry that brings Cloudflare's iconic celebration to life. Check our Birthday Week...

In this week’s episode, we recap our main innovation week of the year, Birthday Week, and its many announcements. Host João Tomé is joined by Brendan Irvine-Broque (Group Product Manager) and Kelly May Johnston (Director, Product Management). We dive into some of the key announcements of the week, including the AI audit and major improvements in security, performance, and AI/ML support, such as en...

Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare Field CTO, John Engates for a comprehensive episode of "This Week in NET". As Cloudflare's annual Birthday Week approaches, get an exclusive preview of the upcoming innovation announcements and how the company continues to evolve its services for the AI era. The episode explores critical cybersecurity developments, examining Cloudflare's expanded global connectiv...

In this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more. Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming begin by explaining how Cloudflare recently launched a new “easy button” to block all AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers to help maintain a safe Internet for content creators. It’s avai...

In this week’s episode, we explore the realm of passwords, leaked passwords, two-factor authentication (2FA), and also AI generated captions for video. Host João Tomé is joined by Garrett Galow, Director of Product at Cloudflare, to discuss a recent blog post on how we help keep customers safe through leaked password notifications accessible via our dashboard. We also discuss the use of passwords...

In this week’s episode, we explore how Cloudflare handles application security, current trends, vulnerabilities, and future expectations. Host João Tomé is joined by Michael Tremante, Director of Product from our Application Security team. We discuss the evolution of application security and its increasing relevance today. We also go into specific use cases, covering firewall security, malware, su...

This is a special feature that celebrates the 50 years of the “TCP paper.” We asked a few questions to three of our team members who are experts in protocols about why the TCP protocol is important for what the Internet has become, its evolution over the years with new additions, and also its future. Participating are Mark Nottingham, our Standards Lead, based in Australia; Marwan Fayed, a Systems...

This week, host João Tomé heads to San Francisco for the cybersecurity RSA Conference (May 6-9, 2024). First, we gather insights from attendees, ranging from a cybersecurity student on the brink of graduation to seasoned managers and experts. We also feature Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer, discussing the nexus of security and privacy. Plus, insights from Carlos Alberto Silva, a...

In this week's episode, we discuss Internet disruptions. Host João Tomé (based in Lisbon, Portugal) is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, based in Boston. We discuss our recent Q1 2024 Internet disruption summary blog post. There were submarine cable failures that impacted 13 countries in Africa. We also address technical issues with RPKI, DNS, and DNSSEC that disrupted connectivit...

In this week's episode, we have a special edition all about Cloudflare’s second innovation week of the year, Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined by our Product wizards Rita Kozlov and Phillip Jones. We discuss the week's key announcements, including reaching 2 million developers building on Cloudflare. Each day of last week had different topics, and we shipped new products and functionality g...

In this week's episode, we discuss email security with one of our security leaders, Oren Falkowitz. Since Developer Week is approaching on April 1, 2024, we also include a teaser with Rita Kozlov. João Tomé and Oren begin by examining a blog post about how recent generic Top-Level Domains, such as “.beauty”, “.wiki”, “.top”, and “.shop”, have high percentages of phishing emails. They delve into th...

In this week's episode, we premiere a new segment called "Let's //Get\ Technical," featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, who returns to the show. João Tomé and John discuss the importance of randomness in securing the Internet for encryption. They explore lavamillions.com, a site John created using our Pages products and also LavaRand to generate random US lottery numbers, and delve into our sou...

In this week's episode, we have a special edition all about Cloudflare’s first innovation week of the year, Security Week. João Tomé and Cloudflare's CSO Grant Bourzikas discuss the week's key announcements. Topics include AI opportunities and risks, ensuring digital visibility and control, focusing on access control and security team monitoring, optimizing CISO spending, and network complexity re...

In this week's episode, we dive into Cloudflare’s developer community, AI models, and offer a sneak peek at Security Week. João Tomé chats with Verónica Marin about the Developer Experience team. We celebrate our Developers Discord server hitting 40,000 members, discuss the kinds of questions you can get answered there, and highlight our open-source software sponsorship program. Then, we head to C...

In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s privacy perspective. João Tomé is joined by Emily Hancock, Cloudflare’s Chief Privacy Officer. We discuss the importance of privacy in the Internet age and its evolution. Our recent blog post reflects on Europe’s GDPR for Privacy Day 2024. We also highlight what regular Internet users, and companies should have in mind about privacy in general, an...

In this week's program, we talk about Cloudflare’s security. João Tomé is joined by Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare’s CSO. We discuss how we dealt with a Thanksgiving 2023 security incident related to an October 2023 Okta compromise that Cloudflare had previously mitigated. Also, we discuss the significance of our access controls, firewall rules, hardware keys, and Zero Trust architecture in limiting...

In this week's program, we go a bit longer than usual to talk about Cloudflare’s hardware, our Impact Report, and the importance of our blog, but also to wish everyone happy holidays. João Tomé initially is joined by Rebecca Weekly, our VP of Infrastructure and Head of Hardware Systems Engineering. We delve into Cloudflare’s perspective on hardware, GPUs, CPUs, and the needs of AI services and app...

In this week's program, we discuss some of the trends from our Cloudflare Radar 2023 Year in Review. João Tomé is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, to shed light on the Internet's patterns and trends as observed through Cloudflare's global network. We cover traffic insights and trends, connectivity and speed, and security. There's also time to explore the most popular Internet ser...

In this week's program, João Tomé is joined by Michelle Chen, Chief of Staff of our Emerging Technology and Incubation team. We go over how ChatGPT is celebrating one year and the recent turmoil — on December 2, 2022 ( you can check that episode here ), we've put OpenAI’s new ChatGPT chatbot (with Cloudflare Workers code) to an initial test. Other related topics include how to build an AI applicat...

In this week's program, João Tomé discusses with Jocelyn Woolbright from our Public Policy team how Cloudflare is assisting in safeguarding numerous upcoming elections in 2024. We also share Thanksgiving trends and stories. We travel to London to learn from Oxana Kharitonova of our Linux Kernel team why part 4 of the deep dive, "How to execute an object file" (the AArch64 edition), is relevant in...

After a special episode about the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage, which you can check here , this week's program features insights from two speakers at the Web Summit conference held this week in Lisbon, Portugal. Cassie Kozyrkov, former Chief Decision Scientist at Google and CEO of Data Scientific, shares her perspectives. Additionally, we hear from Andrew Sullivan, President and C...

In this special episode, João Tomé is joined by Nitin Rao, Cloudflare’s Interim CPO, to discuss the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics outage. The incident lasted from November 2 until November 4, impacting several customers. We explain how one of our core data center providers failed catastrophically, and steps were taken to ensure it never happens again. These measures, which we’re calling C...

This is a special episode of “This Week in NET” dedicated to the recent Okta compromise, which has been making headlines and affecting Okta and its customers, including Cloudflare. Since it's October 31, 2023, we're also sharing some Halloween stories. João Tomé is joined by Sourov Zaman, our Incident Response Manager, to discuss how Cloudflare discovered and mitigated another Okta compromise. We...